Yangtze River Cruise. Read our previous posting at “Cruise Ships: The Yangtze Gold One!” Our first day cruising down the Yangtze river towards the Three Gorges was rather quiet and uneventful. I had purposely selected the three day (in reality two and a half days) downstream Yangtze river cruise, rather than the four day upstream…
Cruise Ships : the Yangtze Gold One !
Cruise Ships : the Yangtze Gold One ! Read our previous posting at “Chongqing : Mountain city, foggy city!” The Yangtze Gold One is the first of a new series of river cruise ships commissioned by a Chongqing based company specifically for the Yangtze river cruise in China. The Yangtze Gold One was launched just…
Chongqing : Mountain city, foggy city
Chongqing China : Our day in Chongqing ! Read our previous posting at “National Rail travel from Chengdu to Chongqing !” This is nothing short of fantastic. As I am sitting down to write this blog, in the observation lounge on deck 5 of our cruise ship down the Yangtze river, the speaker system is…
National Rail Travel from Chengdu to Chongqing !
National Rail Travel from Chengdu to Chongqing. Read our previous posting “Panda Bear keeper for a day!” I was somewhat anxious about our scheduled train ride from Chengdu to Chongqing aboard a China National Rail high speed train. Our guide had warned us that there would be a lot of stairs and there was no…